In my first post on this blog I wrote (critically) about ACAP – a thoroughly wrong-headed attempt by some publishers to enforce stringent limitations on the way search engines index the content that publishers make public on their websites.
Today ACAP is completely dead in the water.
Google,…

OK, well I’ve spent some time reviewing this new specification.
It’s a mixture of a couple of useful new qualifiers to the old robots.txt standard and a lot of anally-retentive control-freakery written by people who still don’t get “the internet”.
The good points:
Extends robots.txt…